The Candlelight Concerts Collection contains information on artists, history, publicity, finances, and miscellaneous other topics relating to these concerts.
A collection of of school yearbooks, class pictures, diplomas, graduation programs, school dance cards, pictures of the various schools, newspaper articles on schools and staff, and a master list of the chronology of Canton Schools for years spanning 1750 to 2016. Local names included in the collection are: Louis J. Clark, M.S. Dyer, Laure T. Neal, Nora E. Bristol, Ruth Lydia Humphrey, Marguerite C. Case, Carl F. Svenson, Jr., Rose E. Gosso, Viola G. Mills, Edward A. Hotchkiss, Fred Joseph Castonguay, Michael Bernard Myers, Grace Francis Hoffman, Mary Helen Soudant, Julia Spencer Douglas, Elizabeth Agnes Moore, Grace Mary Vining, Ada Mary Anderson, Mary W. Mills, Adelbert Poudoin, William Taylor, John Foot Jr., Margaret Hannah Longan, Elinor Patricia Longan, Principal Seth E. Haley. Spring Street School, Cherry Brook Primary School, . School information includes: North Canton School, East Hill School, West or Pike School, River District, Collinsville East, Collinsville West, Collinsville High School. School newspapers from various years.
This collection consists of postcards and photos from 1890 to 1920 from countries and territories in Latin America and the Caribbean, including Barbados, Bermuda, Cuba, Jamaica, Martinique, Puerto Rico, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela, and Madeira. It also includes a small number of postcards depicting Gibraltar, photographs of the building of the Panama Canal, and artistic postcards from Chile published in 1984.
A collection of correspondence; government documents, including legal cases, reports, decrees and proclamations; church documents; published illustrated materials; and writings from the Caribbean islands (Cuba, Jamaica, Santo Domingo, Barbados, and the Virgin Islands) on civil, military, religious, economic and social topics.
Regular and substantive correspondence as well as writings and biographical information provide an excellent picture of the lives and work of the Wahls. Carl and Elisabeth Wahl served as missionaries in China under the Evanglical Church. They were first stationed in Shenzhou (Shenchow) and later in Tongren, Guizhou (Tungjen, Kweichow Province) (now Guizhou) at the Ming Teh Boys' School. Following Carl's untimely death in 1934, Elisabeth returned to China as a teaching missionary until forced to leave by the Sino-Japanese war.
The Carl and Shelley Smith Mydans Papers contain photographic prints, slides, negatives, correspondence, notebooks, drafts of writings, objects, and audiovisual material documenting the careers of Carl Mydans, a photojournalist, and Shelley Smith Mydans, a journalist and novelist. The material dates from 1930 to 2005 and provides insight into the Mydans' careers including their work for Life magazine and their book projects. The papers include photographs taken by Mydans while working for the Farm Security Administration, Life magazine, and Black Star photography agency. The Mydans lived and worked abroad for several years and their papers include photographs taken during their various assignments in Asia and elsewhere. Material relating to the Mydans' friends and colleagues, such as Alfred Eisenstaedt, can be found in the papers.
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